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Should the government launch its 10-year NHS reform plan to integrate health, social care and community services?

Yes 73%No 27%73 votes cast

Theresa May will unveil the government's 10-year NHS plan next week despite Treasury objections that it may not deliver value for money. The plan includes an extra £20.5 billion in real-terms funding by 2023-24 and aims to integrate health, social care and community services as called for by NHS head Sir Simon Stevens. May wants to demonstrate that her government has an agenda beyond Brexit.

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Consensus is the story here, not conflict. Three in four voters backed the government's push to knit together health, social care and community services, a scale of agreement this platform rarely produces on anything touching Whitehall spending decisions.

What texture there is comes from age, and it runs backwards from the usual script: the youngest voters were nearly unanimous, the 65-and-overs firmly onside too, while it was the 55-64s, closer to the sharp end of social care themselves, who supplied the most sceptical bloc, albeit still a clear majority in favour. Men and women voted in near-identical proportions, leaving gender essentially silent on this one.

That the scepticism came from the middle rather than the extremes echoes the plan's own political problem — Treasury doubts about value for money sitting awkwardly against Stevens's case for integration, with May reaching for a post-Brexit domestic legacy. Voters here, unlike the Treasury, were not much troubled by the price tag.

If May wanted proof of appetite beyond Brexit, this chamber gave her one.

LeftCentreRight
73%
Yes · 53 votes
27%
No · 20 votes
Yes No
By gender
Male
77/23
Female
77/23
By age
16–24
83/17
25–34
75/25
35–44
82/18
45–54
67/33
55–64
65/35
65+
75/25
By political leaning
H. Left
67/33
Left
92/8
C. Left
100/0
Centre
83/17
C. Right
70/30
Right
62/38
H. Right
0/100
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Angel· 505
The Border-and-Order Heretic
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The NHS is not fit for purpose ! Just like the Home Office both need to be completely nulled and rebuilt a total overhaul is needed. Get rid of the suits , employ English doctors and nurses and employ matrons!